Dave Haynie: They're both just PCs with PPCs. Nothing more, nothing less
W roku 1993 Dave Hynie twierdził coś innego.
Proszę bardzo część Dave Hynie z materiałów z konferencji dla developerów - Commodore DevCon 93
Dostępna na jego własnej stronie.
http://www.thule.no/haynie/research/nyx/docs/AAA.pdf
Chapter 4 Future System Concerns
The primary goal of an advanced Amiga system can be summed up in one word:
modularity. Such a new system, both logically and physically, is composed of several
interchangable subsystems. No one piece has any unnatural dependence on any other;
interconnections between the system components have to be based on intentional system
standards, not chance implementation details.
4.1 The System Bus
The next generation system should have a processor-independent system bus optimised
for chip to chip interconnect. For the most part this replaces the traditional CPU-specific local
bus found on previous Amiga systems. This establishes a standard to which several generations
of new system and, eventually, Amiga chips can be designed. Since each major system chip
hooks into the system bus independently of any other, this finally breaks the interdependence of
chips in a chip set, allowing upgrades as necessary to any piece of the system.
4.2 The Motherboard
The motherboard for such a system contains just the basics that will be needed by every
system. This will certainly include a number of basic I/O chips for the standard ports on that
machine. The CPU, Amiga chips, and various other elements of the system are located on
separate modules. These don’t necessarily have to be physically located on different cards, but
ideally they will be. Not only does this make motherboard upgrade much easier, but it allows
several different motherboards to be designed using the same plug-in modules, and it allows
Commodore to easily support more options in system and processor makeup.